Leon Brooks wrote on Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:52:30AM +0800 : > > > They may have trade secrets or > > something within the driver that would prevent it from being open-sourced. > > For example, if nVidia open-sourced their driver, their competitors could > > use their work for their own chips. Do you think they want that? > No, I don't. But it _is_ a totally bogus excuse. Their competitors _will_ be
In the case of winmodems that is the reason. It's not bogus there. We don't have to like it, but it's true. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-21mdk
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